Near action degeneracy of periodic orbits in systems with non-conventional time reversal

Abstract

Recently, Sieber and Richter calculated semiclassically a first off-diagonal contribution to the orthogonal form factor for a billiard on a surface of constant negative curvature by considering orbit pairs having almost the same action. For a generalization of this derivation to systems invariant under non-conventional time reversal symmetry, which also belong to the orthogonal symmetry class, we show in this paper that it is necessary to redefine the configuration space in an appropriate way.

6 pages, 4 figures